The Pankhurst Centre occupies the Victorian terraced house where Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia lived when they founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. The WSPU went on to run one of the most dramatic political campaigns in British history, including window-smashing raids, hunger strikes, arson, and the death of Emily Wilding Davison at the Epsom Derby in 1913.
The house has been carefully restored and now operates as both a museum and a working women's centre. The ground floor rooms where the Pankhursts lived and organised are open to visitors, furnished as they would have been in the Edwardian period. The exhibition covers not just the Pankhursts but the wider history of women's rights in Manchester and beyond. Entry is by donation.